MUMBAI: Stressing that Shiv Sena has kept its poll promise of reducing the weight of school bags, party's Youth Sena President Aditya Thackeray today said e-learning tabs will be made available to class VIII students in all civic-run schools by next year. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has also floated tenders for providing e-learning tabs to students, Thackeray told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan after presenting an educational tab to...

Gadget lovers can feast their eyes on these wonderful products that are making the news in the tech world this week. Marshall London Marshall is a brand known (and coveted) for high-quality audio equipment like guitar amps, headphones and Bluetooth speakers.Expanding its portfolio, the company has launched an Android smartphone specifically for music enthusiasts. It has a dedicated sound card along, dual front speakers and support for playback...

NEW DELHI: New Finance Minister Jaswant Singh's may want to pump in more money into the housewife's purse, but he's surely keeping his own house in tight check. While the taxmen have been asked to expand their net and rope in all the moolah, the official missive to the government's expenditure department is to improve the "quality of spending" against an earlier refrain of "spend, spend and spend". The new minister is also keen on keeping tabs on the progress of large investment...

KOLKATA: The Indian arm of China's ZTE will partner with Pune-based Calyx Telecoms to market smartphones and tablets PCs in the country. ZTE India will price smartphones in the range of Rs 5,799 and Rs 14,999, while it is yet to finalise the pricing of its tablets. Both products will be available in all key states by October end, the company said in a statement issued Friday. Under terms of the partnership, ZTE India will handle post-sales...

MUMBAI: Stressing that Shiv Sena has kept its poll promise of reducing the weight of school bags, party's Youth Sena President Aditya Thackeray today said e-learning tabs will be made available to class VIII students in all civic-run schools by next year. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has also floated tenders for providing e-learning tabs to students, Thackeray told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan after presenting an educational tab to...

NEW DELHI: After rolling out one lakh tablets thereby completing its target, the low-cost Aakash project launched by Centre in 2011 to provide viable education for students around the country was closed in March this year, according to an RTI reply. "The Aakash project at IIT Bombay was closed on 31st March, 2015, after successfully completing all targets. Specifications for future upgraded version have been submitted to the government . IIT Bombay is not in...

MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as someone who goes out of his way to keep track of what his ministers are doing. But BJP's national president and Modi's close aide Amit Shah has taken the game to the next level, and in one of the first instance of a party keeping tabs on its own candidates,Shah, who is overseeing the Maharashtra campaign, has got GPS devices fitted to the vehicles of all BJP candidates as well as a...

NEW DELHI: Ranbaxy Laboratories will invest around $14 million to upgrade the manufacturing facility of Johannesburg-based pharma company Be-Tabs. With the regulatory approval last week, Ranbaxy concluded the acquisition of Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals for $70 million. As part of this acquisition, Ranbaxy has also concluded a black empowerment transaction with a Community Investment Holding (CIH) group company. Ranbaxy is believed to have sold 25% stake of Be-Tabs to CIH...

MUMBAI: Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories on Tuesday said the acquisition of Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd (Be-Tabs) has been further strengthened with the company receiving approval from South Africa's Competition Commission. "The acquisition of Be-Tabs will ensure that Ranbaxy develops deeper roots in South Africa and with a strong local flavour," Ranbaxy global pharmaceutical division president Peter Burema said. The deal for the said acquisition is Rs 50 crore, making the...

NEW DELHI: In yet another overseas takeover, India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy on Monday acquired South African drug firm 'Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd' for 70 million dollars (about Rs 315 crore). Be Tabs is the 5th largest generics player and the largest Penicillin manufacturer in South Africa. It has a strong Over The Counter portfolio with significant brand recognition, Ranbaxy said in a statement. "The acquisition of Be-Tabs results in...

NEW DELHI: Ranbaxy Laboratories has acquired South Africa's fifth-largest generic company Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals for $70 million. This acquisition will more than double Ranbaxy's South Africa's sales to $55 million and provide the Indian pharma company with an access to manufacturing facility in that country. According to sources, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, too, was in the race for Be-Tabs, but Ranbaxy was successful in clinching the deal. The acquisition will be EPS accretive, and is valued...

NEW DELHI: Samsung plans to launch two tablets, one of them with 4G connectivity, in the country this month to consolidate its top slot in the market. The Korean smartphone and tablet maker, which increased its lead in the Indian smartphone market in the quarter ended March, said tablets offering 4G LTE (long-term evolution) connectivity will make up a large part of the its tablet portfolio going forward, with a couple of models expected to be launched later this year....

NEW DELHI: The tussle between Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Najib Jung over appointment of Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Delhi Chief Secretary intensified today with the AAP chief saying he will keep a tab on her, alleging the Modi government wants his government to "fail". Kejriwal while accusing the senior bureaucrat of favouring power companies said his government would ensure that every file to Gamlin's...

By Uma Shashikant Research shows people value experiences much more than mere possessions. When we make money decisions about holidays, parties, clothes and cars, we are willing to spend because we like the experiences associated with them. But the dividing line can be thin and confusing leading to wasteful accumulation of things we do not need, or spends we may end up regretting. It might be useful to ask how our spending is split between the...

NEW DELHI: Micromax Informatics , the largest home-bred handset maker, entered the personal computing segment with hybrid Canvas LapTab — a tablet that can function as a laptop when attached to a portable keypad. The company is also planning to launch a slew of products in the new area to grab a foothold. Micromax, which already makes tablets and flat screen televisions, will launch the LapTab on May 6 on Amazon's India site exclusively,...

MUMBAI: Whenever he has some time, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis digs out his tablet and scans an app which has three colours — orange, red and green. While green makes him happy, too many oranges and reds would make him reach for his phone and call in a number right away. And he's invariably engaged in long, animated discussions. The app is actually an infrastructure check list of some of Mumbai and Maharashtra's top...

And when out in the cold Ruling parties have no problems in keeping tabs on the Opposition. All they have to do is to appoint pliable bureaucrats to the intelligence wing of the home ministry and tell them what is required. Which explains why, in coalition governments, the home ministry is a prized portfolio. It could be a case of old habits die hard. The December 22 edition of the Bangalore Mirror tells us that after the declaration of President's rule in Karnataka and the dissolution of...

NEW DELHI: The government today said there is no proposal to monitor social media on the Internet and it has not deputed any team to track the new-age platform. "There is no proposal with the government to monitor social media on the Internet," Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha . He said however that the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules 2011 under Section 79 of the IT Act...

Last September, Dell quietly announced one of the most exciting and horribly named Android tablets ever made— the Venue 8 7000 . Now, that awesome slate is getting a big brother. The Dell Venue 10 7000 is a $500 (Rs 31,000 approx) 10.5-inch tab running Android Lollipop. It's sleek and slim and black, just like its predecessor. It houses the same Intel Atom processor, the same 2 GB of RAM, and a similarly gorgeous 2560 x 1600 OLED display. By all counts, it's just a super-sized...